Self-knowledge, Normativity, and Construction

Tanney, Julia
(2002)
Self-knowledge, Normativity, and Construction.
In:
Logic, Thought and Language.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 37-55.
ISBN 978-0521529662.
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Abstract

This article develops the idea that the ‘compossibility of objectivity, discovery, and invention’ is part of our ordinary (non-theoretical, non-scientific) understanding of the mental. Contemporary theories in the philosophy of mind, which are broadly speaking “realist” fail to make sense of this compossibility: they fail, in particular, to make sense of the inventive aspects of self-ascription. The invited article is in a small collection published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy as a supplement to the journal Philosophy. This particular volume is remarkable as it includes articles from a number of eminent philosophers, including R.M. Sainsbury, David Wiggins, Gregory McCulloch, Crispin Wright, Christopher Peacocke, Timothy Williams, and Charles Travis.